Eggs

fend

Probably the wrong place for this so mods feel free to move if necessary...

Our neighbor recently got some chickens, and yesterday gave us 6 fresh eggs, however one of her chickens is only laying GREEN eggs.... And by green I mean, only the shell! The inside is perfect! I still however won't eat the egg just to be sure its not some freak egg or something... She said that since shes gotten the chickens, that ONE hen is laying only green eggs...

Are they safe to eat? And what is causing them to be green? I'v tried googling it but it seems google is only giving me "from the feed" but wouldnt they all be laying green eggs if it was the feed?

Anyone got any ideas?

peasant

Are you sure that one of the "chickens" isn't a duck?

fend

That's what I thought, but no, it's a chicken!!

.SONIC.

can you eat duck eggs??

homerhop

A duck egg is bigger than a chickens and yes you can eat them.
The eggs your neighbour has given you are perfectly normal. It is also possible to find blue to green chicken eggs, which come from the Aracuana, a breed of chicken developed in Chile. Araucanas have also been crossed with other breeds to produce the Americauna, sometimes called the “Easter egg chicken” in a reference to its multicolored eggs.

Orla K

I don't know much about chickens but I do know that they need ertain nutrients for the shell. My guess, and it is a guess is that this chicken likes to eat alot of grass and the clorosomething just gets into the shell as it's being formed.

Or different breeds of chickens lay different types of eggs.

Either that or it's an alien in disguise.

But the colour on shells can be wiped off as soon as there layed so I'd say the egg is edible.

convert

Are the hens all the same breed? If not, then it's quite possible for the eggs to have different colour shells.

That, or it could be a duck in disguise! :pac:

Sigma Force

Might be no harm in getting a vets opinion either way.

EGAR

homerhop wrote: »

A duck egg is bigger than a chickens and yes you can eat them.
The eggs your neighbour has given you are perfectly normal. It is also possible to find blue to green chicken eggs, which come from the Aracuana, a breed of chicken developed in Chile. Araucanas have also been crossed with other breeds to produce the Americauna, sometimes called the “Easter egg chicken” in a reference to its multicolored eggs.

Yep, correct ! No need to got to a vet . Araucanas for example are quite common now and I recently got green eggs off them from my friend.

yugimon121

EGAR wrote: »

Yep, correct ! No need to got to a vet . Araucanas for example are quite common now and I recently got green eggs off them from my friend.

hey! i was gonna say that!
but anyways Egar is correct, araucanas ?(is that how you spell it?)
do lay green/blue eggs and they perfectly fine to eat

breen.a

do you like like green eggs and ham said sam I am...
i lolled alotwhen i read this...
did you eat the green egg?did you eat it with ham?hehehe:D:D:D:D:D;)

Noopti

Aren't duck eggs more white then green?

Also, duck eggs are very tasty!

gaz wac

green eggs ??

DONT DO IT OP !!

yugimon121

yugimon121 wrote: »

hey! i was gonna say that!
but anyways Egar is correct, araucanas ?(is that how you spell it?)
do lay green/blue eggs and they perfectly fine to eat

breen.a wrote: »

do you like like green eggs and ham said sam I am...
i lolled alotwhen i read this...
did you eat the green egg?did you eat it with ham?hehehe:D:D:D:D:D;)

lol!

I do not like them,
Sam-I-am.
I do not like
green eggs and ham.

kylith

convert wrote: »

Are the hens all the same breed? If not, then it's quite possible for the eggs to have different colour shells.

That, or it could be a duck in disguise! :pac:

yugimon121

convert wrote: »

Are the hens all the same breed? If not, then it's quite possible for the eggs to have different colour shells.

That, or it could be a duck in disguise! :pac:

there are many types of chickens

Buff orpingtons, Rhode island reds, wyandottes, piles, scotch greys, araucana, white orpington......... goes on forever

the araucana are the type with green eggs, like below:

convert

yugimon121 wrote: »

there are many types of chickens

Buff orpingtons, Rhode island reds, wyandottes, piles, scotch greys, araucana, white orpington......... goes on forever

I know that, I was just asking the OP if their neighbour's hens were all one breed or if they had a few different breeds which could/would account for the 'green' egg.

washiskin

not trying to drag this off topic, but Frank (my gander) has been acting really odd lately.

Imagine my shock when I discovered a giant egg in his shed last Saturday!
A case of Victor Victoria me thinks!!

convert

washiskin wrote: »

not trying to drag this off topic, but Frank (my gander) has been acting really odd lately.

Imagine my shock when I discovered a giant egg in his shed last Saturday!
A case of Victor Victoria me thinks!!

That must have been quite a shock! :eek: :pac: